What Color is Your Mental Parachute?

Discussion, they were a bit splashy in the title of their paper (Phantasia –The Psychological Significance Of Lifelong Visual Imagery Vivdness Extremes). And the condition of “Aphantasia” existedlong before it was named and popularized. But these researchers have caught the imagination of the general public, so to speak:The delineation of these forms of extreme imagery also clarifies a vital distinction between imagery and imagination: people with aphantasia –who include the geneticist Craig Venter, the neurologist Oliver Sacks and the creator of Firefox, Blake Ross–can be richly imaginative, as visualisation is only one element of this more complex capacity to represent, reshape and reconceive things in their absence.ReferenceZeman A, Milton F, Della Sala S, Dewar M, Frayling T, Gaddum J, Hattersley A, Heuerman-Williamson B, Jones K, MacKisack M, Winlove C. (2020).Phantasia –The Psychological Significance Of Lifelong Visual Imagery Vivdness Extremes.Cortex.2020 May 4; S0010-9452(20)30140-4.
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